Therapeutic Personal Development through the Performing Arts - with Amy Russell

These ten 75 minute sessions are designed to create movement in areas where there are feelings of being stuck, repetitive patterns, and a lack of feeling and emotion. They will explore what might be blocked potential in personal expression and creative strength. Based in the present-centred methods of Gestalt Therapy, these sessions integrate structured performance practices and non-structured time, during which emerging themes may be explored in a supportive therapeutic relationship. Performance practices may include:

- physical centring
- body awareness
- movement
- vocal release
- playfulness
- spontaneity and improvisation
- creative narrative
- exploring the use of masks to develop personal expression

A confidential, safe, and supportive environment will be established to encourage and facilitate the risk-taking necessary for personal expression and growth.


AMY RUSSELL has attained the level of post-graduate diploma in Gestalt Therapy from the Gestlat Centre in London. She has been teaching physically devised theatre for over 10 years. She is currently studying for a certificate in Hellinger-based Systemic Constellations, having already obtained a masters degree in performance (MFA) and both an acting and a pedagogical certificate from the Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris. She receives Gestalt based as well as Person-Centred supervision to support her weekly client work. She has worked as a lead teacher and Deputy Director of Pedagogy at LISPA for the past 8 years.